The Smog Of The Sea
ABOUT
THE SMOG OF THE SEA immerses viewers in the eerily blue waters of the Sargasso Sea, while chronicling a citizen science mission - led by Dr Marcus Eriksen and musician Jack Johnson - to measure the cloud of microplastics accumulating in the world's oceans.
Director Ian Cheney is an Emmy-nominated & Peabody Award-winning documentary filmmaker. He has completed ten feature documentaries, including King Corn (2007), The Greening of Southie (2008), The City Dark (2011), The Search for General Tso (2014), Bluespace (2015), The Most Unknown (2018), The Emoji Story (2019), Thirteen Ways (2019), Picture a Scientist (2020) and The Long Coast (2020). He received bachelor’s & master’s degrees from Yale University, and an MFA in Film from the Vermont College of Fine Arts. A former MacDowell Fellow & Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT, he lives in Maine.